38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands ISBN 9780593319758, 9798217170135, 0593319753, 8217170134, B0DW7X9CWR, B0DSGQFJ79 instant download

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands ISBN 9780593319758, 9798217170135, 0593319753, 8217170134, B0DW7X9CWR, B0DSGQFJ79 instant download

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.

"Though nearly a decade in the making, this book could not arrive at a better time, because its subject is one of the most pressing themes of our era: impunity. . . . Sands has created an indelible and enthralling work of moral witness.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing

On the evening of October 16, 1998, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested at a medical clinic in London. After a brutal, seventeen-year reign marked by assassinations, disappearances, and torture—frequently tied to the infamous detention center at the heart of Santiago, Londres 38—Pinochet was being indicted  for international crimes and extradition to Spain, opening the door to criminal charges that would follow him to the grave, in 2006.

"An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart. Sands brilliantly traces the atrocious trail of blood that leads from the death camps of Nazi Germany to the torture rooms of Pinochet's Chile. 38 Londres Street takes its place as one of the most unforgettable and important records of the systematic pitiless cruelty of which tyrannies are capable." —Stephen Fry